“I saw that people were getting on their knees and blowing on the frogs,” Sanchez Gonzalez explained. “I told my co-worker, if you want me to do this, get me some knee pads… and she did! I got on the ground and just blew on the frog. It worked out great.”

“Toady Thurmond” jumped 8 feet for a second place finish behind Lea Park-Kim. Senator Joel Anderson's staffer and her frog, “Mr. Jeremy Fisher” won this year's version of the Capitol Frog Jump by half an inch.

“I think the pep talk was the secret,” said Park-Kim. “I really encouraged our Mr. Jeremy Fisher that I believed in him and that he could fly if he wanted to! He just went off his way!”

In the media division, KFBK’s “Christopher Ribbit” apparently wasn’t fond of this year’s earlier start time. While the five-time champion did leap a full six feet (not bad for the conditions); he came in second. We tip our cap to Taylor Maurits of the Capitol Morning Report. Her frog “Get a Jump on the News” ended Christopher Ribbit’s run of three consecutive wins.

“Your reign of terror at the Capitol is over,” Maurits jokingly told Ribbit’s jockey, reporter Joe Michaels, after the event.